Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865

"Cook makes clear the powerful ways that the reverberations of the Civil War still resonate within American political culture. A compelling story." —Joan Waugh, author of U. S. Grant
Winner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American Studies

At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why American...